Sentry

San Francisco, California

Manager, Design Engineering at Sentry

ON-SITE SENIOR
Posted 2 days ago
$200,000 - $270,000
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Company snapshot

Sentry

Sentry provides application performance monitoring and error tracking software that enables software teams to identify issues quickly, gain insights into their applications, and continuously improve their development processes.

Technology SAAS Information Technology & Services E-commerce
HQ
San Francisco, California, United States
Team size
251-1K
Founded
2011
Funding raised
$217M

Quick Summary

Role Overview

Sentry is seeking a Manager of Design Engineering to lead the team responsible for Scraps, their internal design system. This leader will manage a cross-functional team of designers and engineers to build the infrastructure powering Sentry's UI development and AI-native future.

Key Responsibilities

  • Manage and grow a team of engineers and designers through hiring and coaching
  • Own the strategic roadmap for component prioritization and tool adoption
  • Maintain high UI quality and consistency across the entire Sentry web application
  • Synchronize design tokens and components between Figma and production code
  • Build infrastructure to enable fast agentic front-end development and prototyping
  • Drive system adoption through documentation and automated linting workflows

Requirements Snapshot

  • At least three years of experience in design systems or design engineering
  • Minimum of two years of experience in people management
  • Strong visual design skills with expertise in spacing and hierarchy
  • Deep technical fluency in React, TypeScript, CSS, and the DOM
  • Proficiency with Figma design system tools including variables and branching

Expected Impact

The successful candidate will scale Sentry's design system to support an AI-native future, significantly increasing the speed and quality of product development. By bridging the gap between design and engineering, they will ensure a world-class user interface while empowering product teams to ship faster through robust infrastructure.

A DesignJobs.World summary of the employer's posting, written to highlight scope, requirements, and fit (AI-assisted, human-reviewed). For full details, see the description below.

Compensation

$200,000 - $270,000

Job Description

About Sentry

Software runs the world and the pace is faster than ever. Sentry helps developers fix errors and performance issues before users notice, so teams can spend less time firefighting and more time building.

Trusted by 200,000+ organizations, Sentry is today’s application monitoring standard and our team is building its AI-native future.

About the role

Sentry is looking for a Manager, Design Engineering to lead the team behind Scraps, our design system. This role would manage a team of designers and front-end engineers that is building the infrastructure that powers our UI development.

This role lives at the intersection of design, engineering and AI tooling. The ideal candidate is comfortable reviewing a component's API in a pull request, can critique the consistency of typography across components, and has created skills to help agents use a design system more effectively. This role will set the direction for our system, grow the team, and stay close enough to the work to make design and implementation decisions.

In this role you will

  • Manage and grow a team of engineers and designers — hiring, leveling, and coaching across both crafts

  • Own the strategic roadmap for the team: what components to prioritize, what tools to adopt, which parts of the web app to refactor, etc.

  • Help maintain the UI quality and expression that Sentry is known for

  • Keep design and code in sync — tokens, variables, component parity, and the pipeline from Figma to production

  • Stay hands-on building components and the infrastructure to enable fast, accurate agentic front-end development and prototyping

  • Drive adoption across product teams through documentation, lint rules, and contribution workflows that don't slow anyone down

You'll love this job if you

  • Consider yourself a design engineer, or a designer who codes

  • Are passionate about design systems as the context layer for agentic frontend development, and want to build tools and skills that enable product teams to ship faster

  • Nerd out over component APIs, variant structures, and tokenization and naming conventions

  • Care deeply about consistency but know when a pattern needs to flex for a specific use case

  • Care deeply about interface quality, and want to build world class front-end infrastructure you can be proud of

  • Get as much out of growing people as you do out of building things

Qualifications

  • 3+ years of experience in a full-time design system or design engineering team

  • 2+ years of people management experience

  • Strong visual and interaction design skills with a sharp eye for spacing, hierarchy, and micro-interactions

  • Deep fluency in React, TypeScript, CSS, and the DOM

  • Familiarity with Figma's design systems tooling — components, variants, variables, auto layout, shared libraries, and branching workflows

  • Able to balance long-term system thinking with the practical needs of product teams shipping on tight timelines

The base salary range (or hourly wage range, if applicable) that Sentry reasonably expects to pay for this position is $200,000 – $270,000. A successful candidate’s actual base salary (or hourly wage) amount will be determined by a variety of relevant factors including, without limitation, the candidate’s work location, education, work and other relevant experience, skills, and job-related knowledge. A successful candidate will be eligible to participate in Sentry’s employee benefit plans/programs applicable to the candidate’s position (including incentive compensation, equity grants, paid time off, and group health insurance coverage). See Sentry Benefits for more details about the Company’s benefit plans/programs.

Equal Opportunity at Sentry

Sentry is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to its employees and candidates for employment regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, or other legally-protected characteristic. This commitment includes the provision of reasonable accommodations to employees and candidates for employment with physical or mental disabilities who require such accommodations in order to (a) perform the essential functions of their jobs, or (b) seek employment with Sentry. We strive to build a diverse team, with an inclusive culture where every teammate can thrive. Sentry is an open-source company because we believe that everyone, everywhere, should have the ability and tools to make great software. Software should be accessible. That starts with making our industry accessible.

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